Wednesday, 14 June 2017

How to check if Google is tracking you and how to stop it if it is.

To see if you have
location history enabled, head to your Google Maps Timeline. In the belt below the map Google will tell you
whether location history is on or off and let you enable or pause it. (You can
also find this setting in the Personal
info and privacy section on your Google account page. Scroll down
to the Places you go area
click the toggle switch to turn it off.)

Disabling location
history, however, does not remove your past history. If you'd like to erase the
locations Google has stored for you, click the gear icon in the lower-right
corner of your Timeline map and choose Delete all Location History.

You can also delete
your whereabouts for a single day or even a single stop of a single day. Choose
a day from the menu in the upper-left corner of your Timeline map. You'll then
see to the left of the map a list of your stops for that day. Click thetrashcan icon at the top of the list to delete the
location information for the entire day, or click thetriple-dot button next
to a stop and selectRemove stop from day to delete just that location.

Check your phone's location settings:-

For iOS users who want to disable Google's location
reporting from your iPhone, you will need to disable Location Reporting from
the Google search app or another Google app on your iPhone, such as Google
Maps.

For the Google search app, tap on yourprofile picin the upper-left corner to openSettings. Next, tap
onPrivacy,tapLocationandLocationReportingand then chooseDo not report. You
could leave Location Reporting enabled but prevent Google from storing your history
by tappingLocation
Historyfrom theLocationscreen and then choosingDo not storebefore tappingDone.

On Google Maps, tap thehamburger button in the
top left, tapYour timeline, tap thetriple-dot button in the
top right and tapSettings. Under Location
settings, you can see if Location Services and Location History are turned on
or off. From this page in settings, you can also delete all or a portion of
your location history.

There is also a new
item on the main Google Maps panel called Share location. It lets you
temporarily share your location with specific contacts.

You can also see which apps are using location services on
your iPhone by going toSettings
> Privacy > Location Services.